The Steve Staunton Discussion thread

[mypost]

We drew those matches.

Point taken, but very few teams can win here, no matter how good they are.

[Colie]

When your paying the ticket prices international football matches now fetch, your entitled to boo, hiss, cheer, clap, blow raspberries, or make any other noises you care to make.

And here, folks, is the crux of the problem. We're paying "customers" now, not "supporters". Mr. Tom Humphries was spot on in last Saturdays times. I'm a supporter & all you customers can shove yer tickets. Yee don't deserve to be at any Ireland match in my opinion. The same ones that were abusing the team in San Marino no doubt. "I spent a load of cash getting here, I can abuse them if I want". Customers. Yee aren't supporters & yee never will be.

[backstothewall]

And here, folks, is the crux of the problem. We're paying "customers" now, not "supporters". Mr. Tom Humphries was spot on in last Saturdays times. I'm a supporter & all you customers can shove yer tickets. Yee don't deserve to be at any Ireland match in my opinion. The same ones that were abusing the team in San Marino no doubt. "I spent a load of cash getting here, I can abuse them if I want". Customers. Yee aren't supporters & yee never will be.

I have to be honest, I don't get your logic

If you pay €50+ for a seat your not entitled to make your feelings known to the moron doing a terrible job for €400,000+

yet it is ok the question the commitment of the working man in the street who, with the other hundreds of thousands who by buying replica shirts, paying at the gate and watching on TV bankrolls the millionaire lifestyle of Stan? and Tom Humphries for that.

Disagree by all means, but who the hell is anyone to question the commitment of someone who pays to be there when they get free tickets for writing for a bad newspaper.

when you are the man who spends hundreds of euro every year on this, your a customer, and a valuable one, and you expect to be treated as one. If you weren't a supporter you would never be a customer in the firs place.

Unless your a talking head who gets in for nothing that is.

[citizenerased]

Whats the story........
Try taking a half day off work driving 3hrs - 5hrs to Dublin for the game to watch that drivel that has been served up under stan, whilst sober not intoxicated and see how chuffed you would be!!

67,00 people at the game - average weekly attendance for League games 14,000....where are all the others coming from Delaney and the powers that be??

The LOI fans are shoved behind the goals whilst the suits get the best seats in the house.

Gaelic heads at games - pat Spillane et al, slate the game on a Sunday, glad to be there on a Wednesday (paid for ticket???).

Oh yes its great being a LOI/ireland National team fan.

Here we go again the poor plight of the LOI fan get off your high horse, whats wrong with 'gaelic heads' at games, are they not entitled to support their country?!?

Disgraceful atmosphere at the game saturday, was in the upper hogan , not a hint of support out of them, the lad on front tirned around and told me to 'tone it down' a bit...ffs..what sort of c%^ts are goin to these games..

The true fans will be there wednesday, and ill be booing the useless ginger git when we grind out a scappy 1 nil..

[Jerry The Saint]

I was saying Boo-urns

Used before but still gives me a laugh!!

And I'd do it again!

It's like a reflex action - I can never let a discussion on booing go by without bringining up the immortal Moleman quote

[jbyrne]

either very dumb .. which would not be the first time, or a deliberate ploy to gage public opinion of Stan .. not that you need to go to much length to find that out at the moment. Very peculiar.

when at the same match the clown that does the PA announces a sub for west germany id go with dumb

[jbyrne]

Yes, he was so good he failed to notice Spain were down to 10 men for the second period of extra time.
He was/is not a good managewr, end of

was irrelevant as only one team was trying to win that match in extra time and it wasnt spain. at least under mick we managed to beat our rivals at home like croatia, yugoslavia, holland, iran.... with decent away draws against holland, portugal....

[Dr. Ogba]

Point taken, but very few teams can win here, no matter how good they are.

yeah that's all well and good but, as has been shown in this group, very few teams need to win here because there's absolutely no chance of us turning them over on their home soil...

Fact of the matter is, if any of the Germans had their shooting boots on we would have conceded a couple in the second half...

[drummerboy]

The plight of our football team will only start dawning on the clowns in the FAI tomorrow night when they see the empty spaces in the stands of Croke Park. I gave me tickets away for both these games. I refuse to go and watch Ireland while that imbecile is in charge of the team.

[citizenerased]

there is no way, he must have done the west germany thing for a laugh/bet ! its been 17 years since the re-unification, how could it slip his mind?

[John83]

there is no way, he must have done the west germany thing for a laugh/bet ! its been 17 years since the re-unification, how could it slip his mind?

People over a certain age make slips like that. Heck, I sometimes refer to Czechoslovakia before catching myself, and I'm only 24.

[jbyrne]

there is no way, he must have done the west germany thing for a laugh/bet ! its been 17 years since the re-unification, how could it slip his mind?

i doubt it. he hasnt a clue and as thick as two short planks. anyone who plays the well known cliff richard football classic "congratulations" after robbie keane broke the Irish goalscoring record is capable of anything!

[gufct]

It wasnt just the booing of Stan .The booing at the end of the game was sick and stupid.

[OwlsFan]

It wasnt just the booing of Stan .The booing at the end of the game was sick and stupid.

Just about every home 0-0 I have been at over the years ended in some form of booing by a few fans (usually the ones more interested in the wave than watching the game).

[WoodquayBoy]

was irrelevant as only one team was trying to win that match in extra time and it wasnt spain. at least under mick we managed to beat our rivals at home like croatia, yugoslavia, holland, iran.... with decent away draws against holland, portugal....

Fair point, doesn't change my opinion about his quality as a manager, but fair point.
What it does do is show how bad things have gone since - we were performing that 'well' under MIck, and look at how we are doing now.
Anyway, Mourinho might be looking for something to do for a while, it says in the papers today that if England don;t qualify, they will go after him to replace McLaren. Seen as we know we won't qualify, should we sound him out before the neighbours call?

[back of the net]

and were joined by lots of fans at swiss match '02 by booing and chanting keanes name all through the match. as much to blame as the press

yeah wat a sad lot they were



everybody
protest down at the fai - prior to wednesdays game - take it to them - im all for it

delaney has to be removed - he is the crux of the problem


but i wont sit and boo in the stadium - ill be there supporting our boys

[Ash]

The protests got a little mention on 2TV yesterday (I was off work sick)
Yer man Aidan Power and the sports wan were on about a great crowd
at the game despite the talk of a black shirt protest.

He claimed that fans on about protesting are not real fans and they should
get behind manager and team ... or something like that.

[Superhoops]

The plight of our football team will only start dawning on the clowns in the FAI tomorrow night when they see the empty spaces in the stands of Croke Park. I gave me tickets away for both these games. I refuse to go and watch Ireland while that imbecile is in charge of the team.

Enjoy your night whatever you chose to do! We'll not miss you

[RogerMilla]

ill be booing the useless ginger git when we grind out a scappy 1 nil..

ah , an optimist!

[RogerMilla]

Just about every home 0-0 I have been at over the years ended in some form of booing by a few fans (usually the ones more interested in the wave than watching the game).

not too bothered if fellas boo , i wouldnt do it myself though.
stan was in the dressing room when he was booed and i'm sure he has heard abotu it since. the man has a neck like a jockeys inner thigh though and he will not quit.